Attendees

Pierre, Regina, Barbara, JulieH, Eldar, KevinG, JeffS, SteveD

Synopsis

Another lovely Saturday morning coffee with Pierre -- this one out in Regina's back yard.

Time-table

• 0:00:30 Pierre dialogues with Regina about her family game
• 0:20:50 Barbara's two dreams from that morning
• 1:01:30 Dialogue with KevinG to help him think through a life problem he is facing
• 2:02:04 JeffS's dream, 9 umbrellas (after everyone has read it)

Dream Texts

Barbara's Dreams

Dream 1 - Saturday, September 8, 2018

In the dream Belinda and I are both trying to do a particular dialogue with a particular person and we neither of us quite having success. In order to have the success we’re looking for a portmanteau, like a briefcase and I think that’s what it was. And Pierre’s talking to Belinda.

And in the next scene we’re outside a house, maybe the house and we need a particular thing, that would fit in the palm of your hand and it’s caught up in the antenna of the house and we're all looking at it and we're all going, “Phhf, I’m not going to be able to reach that.”

And I look up there, too and I’m thinking “Maybe with a long stick or something.”

But Bill Duncan goes up. Almost in the dream it looks like he walks up to it, and reaches his hand over, not even completely up and takes it down. And he had his pipe in one hand and he takes his pipe in one hand out of his mouth and with his other hand he just plucks the object.

So that’s the way the dream ends with all of us being laughing and amazed he could pick it up so easily.

Dream 2 - Saturday, September 8, 2018

In this dream, Marie is sitting in what looks like a high executives office but on the ground floor of something that looks like an airport. And she’s the officer and she’s sitting at the desk.

What I can see from looking into the room is that three of the walls are some are almost half from the middle of the room to the ceiling glass and most of them are all the way to the floor glass.

And as she sits there a sheet of illumination, or it’s like a state of mind comes from the top of her head as if it were ... like in the movie, “The Warriors of Heaven and Earth. Like a sheet of pearly pale blue light that goes out like a very thin circle of lightning and that’s the way the dream ends.

KevinG's Problem Statement

(unavailable)

Jeff's Dream Sept 6 2018

Wednesday night I went to bed affirming that I was (or would be) lucid in my dreams, and/or, remember them well in the morning.

Thursday morning, I half-woke early in the morning in bed. I say, “half-woke” because it was a half- wake, half-dreaming state. I guess they call this, “hypna-pompic”, and I usually enjoy this state, and did at the time. So I just lay there in this state, testing this balance between “both sides” .. the lucid and self-aware ability to ask questions and think on the one hand, and the more direct access to the “subconscious” mind on the other hand.

So while I was lying there, it occurred to me that I might therefore be able to ask myself some questions that I had been for some time wanting to get answers out of myself for.

So I asked myself, while lying there in that state, a sort of bi-partite question:

“What next thing do I need to do or see, or what ignorance do I need to remove, in order to (a) reach ultimate understanding / knowledge, and (b) remove my anxiety/panic that I seem to be carrying around all the time?”

The image I immediately saw was an outside place, maybe a street cafe, with tables and umbrellas, over them, blue-ish umbrellas. The tables and umbrellas were all close together, in a sort of bunch. And the logos/idea/answer that came with it was, “Remove the 9 umbrellas.” And I realized there were 9 umbrellas there.

Credits

Thanks also to Regina for supplying the first few minutes (up to 13:13) of recording from her recorder, as I arrived late. -JS

More Info

• Pierre Grimes and Philosophical Midwifery
• The Noetic Society
• The Pierre Grimes and the Noetic Society collection here on archive.org.

Image, Dizzy yet? courtesy of Flickr user Bernard Spragg. NZ under a Public Domain license when downloaded on 2018-11-03.

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